Creator of Yoon-Suin and other materials. Propounding my half-baked ideas on role playing games. Jotting down and elaborating on ideas for campaigns, missions and adventures. Talking about general industry-related matters. Putting a new twist on gaming.
The Introdution to the AD&D 2nd Edition Dungeon Master's Guide makes the following interesting assertion:
It is a curate's egg of advice. Some of the basic principles are right, but on the whole it simply can't be right. If characters go hunting wererats tomorrow without doing any research beforehand, it should just be the natural consequence of that choice if things go awry. Similarly, it should be the natural consequence of doing proper research that there will be fewer surprises - and there is therefore no need to reward characters who do the right 'checking'.